This little girl learning where meat comes from will melt your carnivorous heart.

That is, unless your kids grew up on a farm, watched Babe or Charlotte’s Web (correct me if I’m wrong, but I swear these are the exact same movie!) or they got brainwashed early by the Simpsons episode where Lisa turns vegetarian. And the lesson we all learned there was that you don’t make friends with salad.

So meat is here to stay in your house. How on earth do you explain to your innocent offspring that the succulent lamb roast they just polished off for dinner is in fact the same adorable fluffy baby lamb that was out in the paddock the other day?

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The family from Kiama, south of Sydney, obviously eat a lot of Devon, because Dakota's next question was, "what's Devon?"

Ah yes, it's a question that has plagued many of us. What indeed is Devon? Mystery meat. I'd venture a guess that there are at least a few beaks and hooves in there, and I don't even want to think about what else.

But quick as a flash, Chelsea had an answer for her troubled daughter.

"Oh, Devon's a whole lot of different stuff."

According to our sources, Dakota is back on the meat now but she hasn't touched Devon since.

Smart cookie.

Watch the video in it's adorable entirety, playing at the top of this article.

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